Here is the link.

Many people desperately want America to be imperial, war-mongering and perpetually in decline:  this confirms many of the ideas they want to be true.  

Even Pat Buchanan likes declinism but for different reasons: the moral decline of secular society…. for failure to live up to religious commandments.

So, anti-declinism articles like this one can be a good antidote against all that.  Walter Russell Mead can be too.

Is it all just declinism and anti-declinism out there?

Reminds me of a certain movie…

Photo found here.